THE BUDDHA AND HIS TEACHINGS
Venerable Nārada Mahāthera
Reprinted for free distribution by
The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation
Taipei, Taiwan. July 1998
- Chapter 1 – From Birth to renunciation
- Chapter 2 – His struggle for enlightenment
- Chapter 3 – The Buddhahood
- Chapter 4 – After the englightenment
- Chapter 5 – The invitation to expound the Dhamma
- Chapter 6 – Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta – The first discourse
- Chapter 7 – The teaching of the Dhamma
- Chapter 8 – The Buddha and his relatives
- Chapter 9 – The Buddha and his relatives (cont)
- Chapter 10 – The Buddha’s chief opponents and supporters
- Chapter 11 – The Buddha’s royal patrons
- Chapter 12 – The Buddha’s Ministry
- Chapter 13 – The Buddha’s daily routine
- Chapter 14 – The Buddha’s Parinibbana (death)
- Chapter 15 – The teachings of The Buddha
- Chapter 16 – Some salient characteristics of Buddhism
- Chapter 17 – The Four Noble Truths
- Chapter 18 – Kamma
- Chapter 19 – What is Kamma
- Chapter 20 – The working of Kamma
- Chapter 21 – Nature of Kamma
- Chapter 22 – What is the Origin of Life
- Chapter 23 – The Buddha on the So-Called Creator-God
- Chapter 24 – Reasons to believe in rebirth
- Chapter 25 – The wheel of life – Paticca – Samuppada
- Chapter 26 – Modes of Birth and Death
- Chapter 27 – Planes of Existence
- Chapter 28 – How rebirth takes place
- Chapter 29 – What is it that is reborn ?
- Chapter 30 – Moral responsibility
- Chapter 31 – Kammic Descent and Kammic Ascent
- Chapter 32 – A note on the Doctrine of Kamma and Rebirth in the West
- Chapter 33 – Nibbana
- Chapter 34 – Characteristics of Nibbana
- Chapter 35 – The way to Nibbana
- Chapter 36 – The way to Nibbana – Meditation
- Chapter 37 – Nivarana or Hindrances
- Chapter 38 – The way to Nibbana (cont)
- Chapter 39 – The state of an Arahant
- Chapter 40 – The Bodhisattva Ideal
- Chapter 41 – Parami – Perfections
- Chapter 42 – Brahmavihara – the Sublime States
- Chapter 43 – Eight Worldly Conditions
- Chapter 44 – The Problems of Life
